DB: the capitalistic shift driving Technology and Science (in that reverse order) in a much swifter accelaration than the thirst for Knowledge as Science itself could have managed or even what RC has elsewhere called the Will to Technology as the Will to Power, the defining drive of the Asuric Superman.,……. RC: and something we do not conceive of well, because yes, by its very nature it is moving at speeds which exceed our default mode of rationalizing time, usually, arithmetically, while the asuric or the singularity move exponentially. At least a (3rd order) cybernetic epistemology, one that comprehends complex systems, is required to understand such hyper-geometric progression as is driving us today toward l’Avenir. RY: (from the Synthesis of Yoga) The telescope, the microscope, the scalpel, the retort and alembic cannot go beyond the physical, although they may arrive at subtler and subtler truths about the physical. If then we confine ourselves to what the senses and their physical aids reveal to us and refuse from the beginning to admit any other reality or any other means of knowledge, we are obliged to conclude that nothing is real except the physical and that there is no Self in us or in the universe, no God within and without, no ourselves even except this aggregate of brain, nerves and body. But this we are only obliged to conclude because we have assumed it firmly from the beginning and therefore cannot but circle round to our original assumption. RC The scientist once used the retort and the alembic, but now dna and nano-molecular machines, which cannot go beyond the physical but are revealing the subtler truths about the physical and it is those truths which are now accelerating us toward what was perhaps their original assumption, one of “completed nihilism” (as the passage in synthesis suggests) and this certainly has consequences, regards the journey of the evolution of consciousness and ideals of Human Unity. The Irony: the injurious neglect of the human as unintended consequences of the Enlightenment project. The Question: Can the birthing of the post-human be facilitated by means other than the injurious neglect of the human? rc